August 28

1689 | Great Lakes explorer Claude-Jean Allouez died.

1728 | Revolutionary War hero John Stark was born.

1774 | American Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was born.

1813 | Author Jones Very was born.

1830 | The first American-built locomotive, “Tom Thumb,” races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company in Baltimore to Ellicott Mills, Maryland.

1831 | First Lady Lucy Ware Webb Hayes was born.

1845 | The Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.

1861 | Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

1862 | Civil War: The Battle of Groveton, Virginia.

1862 | Civil War: The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia.

1867 | The United States formally takes control of Midway Atoll.

1878 | Scientist George Whipple was born.

1884 | John Joseph Montgomery made the first glider flight in Otay, California.

1903 | Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted died.

1907 | United Parcel Service was founded.

1908 | Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson was born.

1917 | Civil Rights: Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.

1925 | Entrepreneur Marvin Davis was born.

1946 | Film: “The Killers” debuted.

1948 | Author Vonda N. McIntyre was born.

1949 | Civil Rights: A riot prevented Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York.

1955 | Civil Rights: Teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.

1957 | Congress: Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond begins the longest U.S. filibuster, 24 hours and 18 minutes, against the Civil Rights Act.

1958 | Athlete Scott Hamilton was born.

1958 | SCOTUS: Cooper v. Aaron was argued.

1962 | Director David Fincher was born.

1963 | Civil Rights: March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream speech.”

1964 | Civil Rights: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, race riots start.

1965 | The first Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

1967 | Entrepreneur Charles Darrow died.

1968 | Civil Rights: DNC riots in Chicago, Illinois.

1973 | Music: “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye debuted.

1977 | Outdoorsman Ralph Samuelson died.

1978 | Historian Bruce Catton died.

1982 | Musician LeAnn Rimes was born.

2020 | Actor Chadwick Boseman died.